26th May 2005, 06:13 PM
Cheers Vulpes,
It's good to seem I'm not the only idealist out there.
I can count on one hand the number of negative watching briefs or evaluations for that matter, I've done in ten years of fieldwork, so justification to the client is not an issue.
Also, I'm a big fan of strip and record WB's. They are being used up here by the more enlightened curators. It's great when a large area of "nothing expected" site is stripped and revealed to be riddled with features. Even the developers know they have a responsibilty then and it always seems to get upgraded with few queries. That is not the case with typical "record the features in the sides of foundation" watching briefs. For that matter I have spent months on the latter type of WB when the former could have been done in weeks. Cost effective for the developer? No way.
It's good to seem I'm not the only idealist out there.
I can count on one hand the number of negative watching briefs or evaluations for that matter, I've done in ten years of fieldwork, so justification to the client is not an issue.
Also, I'm a big fan of strip and record WB's. They are being used up here by the more enlightened curators. It's great when a large area of "nothing expected" site is stripped and revealed to be riddled with features. Even the developers know they have a responsibilty then and it always seems to get upgraded with few queries. That is not the case with typical "record the features in the sides of foundation" watching briefs. For that matter I have spent months on the latter type of WB when the former could have been done in weeks. Cost effective for the developer? No way.